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Perhaps there are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily enkindled and burns so remarkably conspicuous as among the Americans.
— Mar 03, 2021 12:56PM
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Samantha
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Mankind are seldom driven into compliance by the haughty threats of powerful adversaries....
— Mar 04, 2021 08:30AM
Samantha
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They were sensible the step they were about to take would either set their country on the pinnacle of human glory or plunge in in the abject state into which turbulent and conquered colonies have been generally reduced.
— Mar 03, 2021 11:18AM
Samantha
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Freedom, long hunted round the globe by a succession of tyrants, appeared at this period as if about to erect her standard in America; the scimitar was drawn from principles that held life and property as a feather in the balance against the chains of servitude that clanked in her disgusted ear.
— Mar 03, 2021 10:56AM
Samantha
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These hopes vanished and all expectations of that kind were soon cut off by the determined system of coercion in Britain and the actual commencement of war in America.
— Mar 03, 2021 09:51AM
Samantha
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It must be allowed that the genius of America was bold, resolute and enterprising; tenacious of the rights their fathers had endured such hardships to purchase, they determined to defend to the last breath the invaluable possession.
— Mar 02, 2021 05:37PM
Samantha
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It is true that in the course of the arduous struggle, there were many irregularities that could not be justified, and some violences in consequence of the general discontent, that will not stand the test when examined at the bar of equity; yet perhaps fewer than ever took place in any country under similar circumstances.
— Mar 02, 2021 05:28PM
Samantha
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After the spirits of men had been wrought up to a high tone of resentment by repeated injuries on the one hand and an open resistance on the other, there was little reason to expect a ready compliance with regulations repugnant to the feelings, the principles, and the interest of Americans.
— Mar 02, 2021 03:56PM
Samantha
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As a true disciple of passive obedience, he might think of himself bound to promote the designs of his master, and thus he might probably release his conscience from the obligation to aid his countrymen in their opposition to the encroachments of the crown.
— Mar 02, 2021 01:41PM
Samantha
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America still cherished the flattering ideas of reconciliation, but these expectations were finally dissipated by the repeated attempts to reduce the colonies to unlimited submission to the supreme jurisdiction of parliament and the illegal exactions of the crown.
— Mar 02, 2021 11:48AM
Samantha
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It is not uncommon to see virtue, liberty, love of country, and regard to character sacrificed at the shrine of wealth.
— Mar 02, 2021 11:16AM
